Samuel Elsner

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Johann Gottlob Samuel Elsner (born December 11, 1778 in Berlin ; † August 30, 1856 there ) was a German merchant and one of the formative personalities of the Berlin revival movement in the first half of the 19th century.

Life

Samuel Elsner came from a pious family; his family belonged to the Bohemian community in Berlin. At the age of 14 he came to Privy Councilor Gottlob Friedrich Hil (l) mer and was a copyist for the Immediat Examinationskommission , which was supposed to supervise the execution of Wöllner's religious edict .

He did an apprenticeship as a weaver and later worked successfully in the cotton trade.

Logo of the main association for Christian edification writings (1834)

Elsner belonged to the circle around Johannes Jaenicke , who founded the Biblical Society in 1805 , from which the Prussian Main Bible Society emerged in 1814 . From 1814 to 1816 he was one of the directors of the Bible Society, at the same time and until his death its first secretary. In 1811/12 he was one of the founders of the Traktatverein, which from 1816 operated as the main Berlin association for Christian edification writings in the Prussian states . Elsner was its secretary from 1814 to 1855; his house at Spandauer Strasse 40 also served as the association's writings store from 1816 to 1856, and he also acted as a publisher himself. One of the most successful writings was the treatise August Tholuck's Guido and Julius, suggested by Elsner in 1823 : The Doctrine of Sin and the Reconciler, or: The True Consecration of the Doubter , in which he processed his experience of awakening.

Since the beginning of 1817, Elsner has been the editor of the correspondence sheet of the Prussian Main Bible Society Latest News from the Kingdom of God , with which, according to Peter Maser, he created perhaps the most important means of communication that the revival movement has ever possessed.

Elsner died of a stroke . Johann Friedrich Arndt held his funeral service .

Fonts

  • (Ed.): Spiritual song treasure: Collection of the most excellent spiritual songs for church, school and home and all living conditions. Berlin: Elsner 1832 ( digitized )

Elsner wrote a whole series of wedding poems, mostly in Low German:

  • As de Hövetmann Hinrik von Rohr unn de Junkfruwe Julie Mangold Brutlacht Hochtiet had the 5th June 1834. Berlin: Trowitzsch 1834
  • As min lever Fründ and Broder Carl Bertram Kgl. Preuss. Ingenier-Geographer sine Brudt de Jungfruwe Emilie Mangold tho Hus brought home the 3rd November 1834 hadde by dise Brudtlacht his thoughts about Munster goder marriages in de Hillige script yuver oller Fründ and Broder Johann Gottlob Samuel Elsner. Berlin: Trowitzsch 1834
  • To de Brutlacht the Christliken preacher Friedrich Arndt and de Junkfrouwe Serena Albanus on January 21, 1835 hadde his reflections över de Worde Pauli 1. Tim. 4, v. 1-3 yuver olle Fründ and Broder Johann Gottlob Samuel Elsner. Berlin: Weckerle 1835
  • My inheritance as a gift on the day of the marital blessing of the King. Preuss. Premier Lieutnants Mr. Joh. Christ. Westphal with my daughter the virgin EL Auguste Elsner on July 25, 1836. Berlin: Weckerle 1836
  • To de Brutlacht det Junkmans Carl Friedrich Seiffert unde de Junkfrouwe Marie Ludovike Agnes Weisskopf on December 3rd, 1838 hadde syne contemplation oever de Worde det Propheten Jesaia Cap. 46, v. 4 yuver oller Fründ Hans Gottlov [i.e. Johann Gottlob Samuel Elsner]. Berlin: Jahncke 1838
  • To de Brutlacht det Junkmans Albert Bötzow and de Junkfrouwe Hedwig Lydia Amalie Stuhr on September 30, 1848 hadde syne reflections oever de Worde det prophet Jesaia Cap. 46, v. 4 years old Fründ Hans Gottlov S. Elsner. Berlin: Schantze 1848

literature

  • Westphal: Samuel Elsner. In: Wilhelm Thilo: History of the Prussian main Bible Society: in its first half-century 1814-1864. Written for the jubilee celebration at the management's event. Berlin: publishing the Prussian main Bible Society in 1864, Supplement XII, pp 304 -312
  • Martin Funk : Samuel Elsner. A life sketch. Berlin: Main association for Christian edification writings no year [1878]

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Maser : Hans Ernst von Kottwitz. Studies on the awakening movement of the early 19th century in Silesia and Berlin. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1990, ISBN 3-525-56439-2 , p. 22
  2. ^ Paul Troschke: Handbook of the free evangelical charity in the province of Brandenburg. Berlin: Warneck 1906, p. 170
  3. ↑ See also Christine Axt-Piscalar: Powerless Freedom: Studies on the Relationship between Subjectivity and Sin by August Tholuck, Julius Müller, Sören Kierkegaard and Friedrich Schleiermacher. (Contributions to historical theology 94) Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 1996 ISBN 9783161463730 , p. 7
  4. ^ Digitized from Volume 12 (1828)
  5. ^ Peter Maser : Hans Ernst von Kottwitz. Studies on the awakening movement of the early 19th century in Silesia and Berlin. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1990, ISBN 3-525-56439-2 , p. 22
personal data
SURNAME Elsner, Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elsner, Johann Gottlob Samuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman, formative personalities of the Berlin revival movement
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1856
Place of death Berlin